Talk:A Time Of Gifts

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[edit] Diary

I happen to have just re-read A Time of Gifts, and looked at the page from curiosity. Having so recently refreshed my memory, I knew that the statement that the book's publication was delayed due to the loss of the author's diaries, eventually rediscovered, wasn't quite correct. Firstly it was a diary, not diaries. Secondly, if anything publication was delayed by the discovery of the diary. He was already writing the book, and revised what he had written in the light of the diary, then mining it extensively for the remaining portions. But the book was being written anyway and would have appeared, though clearly the final result would have been somewhat different. I rewrote the statement to reflect this.

81.154.197.153 09:42, 23 September 2007 (UTC)